VirtualBox

Fri Nov 14 05:21:47 MST 2014

I have seen more gimping of hardware in hp desktops/laptops that were
deemed budget oriented than any other vendor. To the point of killing
features that the cpu/chips ET would natively support. It looks like you
have discovered this in spades.

On Friday, November 14, 2014, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

>  Don't buy HP - been there, done that.  Told "linux isn't relevant enough
> to fix a bios bug".  Stopped buying them.
>
> Sadly no, vendors (like hp) suck for linux at times and in general, might
> try some of the various grub flags for disabling acpi, if a desktop and not
> sleeping, you're not losing much except maybe some power management.  Dell
> is generally more friendly, but as I mentioned not always either.  Anything
> windoze 8.x-ish is just generally more unfriendly/quirky toward linux I
> find.
>
> Thank them when you pay your next microsoft tax on a prebuilt system.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 11/13/2014 11:41 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>
> I've tried looking on HP's website and it says I have the latest BIOs.  So
> unless I look for the specific board I think it's updated right now.
> Unless you have suggestions.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','michael at butash.net');>> wrote:
>
>>  I've never had it flip on and off, few times with a new laptop I'll try
>> to start vbox and realize the vt setting is off after a minute of
>> scratching my head, but not revert randomly.
>>
>> See if there is a bios update too.  Seems no one bothers to make anything
>> right the first time since microsoft perfected the "ship crap and patch
>> later" game.
>>
>> You want really odd bios, my newest dell laptop after about a month of
>> use with only suspends will start turning itself back on back on.  Even
>> with a poweroff now, I have to literally 5 second poweroff to make it stay
>> down or it'll just start booting again.  Ghost in the shell, or at least
>> acpi functions.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/13/2014 06:25 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>>
>> Now I don't think this is very relevant but I also have virtualbox setup
>> on my laptop. I've not had an issue yet like on my desktop.  The difference
>> is that this laptop is a little newer and also I'm not dual booting my
>> laptop.  Other than that they are both setup the same way.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Stephen M <smelheim85 at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','smelheim85 at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> My computer is around 5 years old and I don't think there is an app that
>>> controls the BIOS that I'm aware of.  The CMOS battery could be an issue
>>> because when I looked at the date in the BIOS it wasn't set correctly.  But
>>> the date was so I could try that.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','michael at butash.net');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Sounds like your bios is resetting - maybe the cmos battery?  The VT
>>>> bit is a bios setting, really shouldn't change unless you have a os-level
>>>> app that controls the bios too.  Seems most newer non-basic boards have
>>>> this now.
>>>>
>>>> -mb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/13/2014 02:52 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   It happened the same in 12.04 with 14.04.  I have the latest version
>>>> of virtualbox which is 4.3.18 and the expansion pack.
>>>>
>>>>  If anyone can think of ideas why this might be happening that would be
>>>> helpful.  But at this time I might have to look for a new computer.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Stephen M <smelheim85 at gmail.com
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','smelheim85 at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Hi all,
>>>>>  I'm not sure if someone has already asked this question.  I have a 64
>>>>> bit host that I have VT enabled in the BIOS.  I can sometime create/run 64
>>>>> bit guest machines and other times not.  It is usually when I reboot my
>>>>> computer.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I have tried to turn off VT or just having it on.  It will eventually
>>>>> come back though.  This problem has been going on for a while now.  I was
>>>>> on Ubuntu 12.04 but now 14.04 beyond that nothing else changed.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Stephen Melheim
>>>>> 602-400-7707
>>>>> SMelheim85 at gmail.com
>>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','SMelheim85 at gmail.com');>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> 602-400-7707
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